Had enough yet

[Lee Chowaniec]

Electrification costs could explode despite Biden-Harris climate predictions

Knewz.com is reporting that the Biden-Harris administration's push to electrify households has come under scrutiny as it may raise costs, contrary to the administration's claims of reducing energy expenses. Recent data shows electricity costs four times more than natural gas, raising economic concerns. And we all know how electricity rates are double-digit increasing.

Climate change is real, and it is expedient that we continue to reduce fossil fuel use but the shift to sustainable energy sources could increase expenses for low-income families, who spend a higher share of their income on energy. The Department of Energy has consistently shown that natural gas is a much cheaper energy source for households than electricity.

Government policies trying to block the use of natural gas in favor of electricity will significantly drive-up prices, making home heating and appliance use needlessly expensive. The poor and low-income will get hurt the most because compared to higher income households, they spend a greater share of their household income on meeting basic needs such as staying warm in the winter.

The Department of Energy's new regulations limit gas appliance use, potentially affecting 60% of home gas furnaces. While said to save consumers billions, critics noted the cheaper cost of natural gas has been overlooked.

“One of the most offensive bait-and-switch moves being played by officials in Washington D.C. and coastal enclaves is the push to force electric appliances on everyone, everywhere, even when natural gas can often be dramatically cheaper,” Alliance for Consumers executive director O.H. Skinner said. “The officials push the idea that bans on gas stoves, or gas furnaces, or other gas appliances will save on energy costs, but at the same time they have evidence that natural gas is cheaper…It’s time that officials in D.C. stopped trying to micromanage people’s lives and make everyone hew to a one size fits all approach to their homes," Skinner added.

With electricity at 47.36 per million BTU versus natural gas at 13.36, utility costs could triple. Critics have labeled the shift to electric appliances a "bait-and-switch" due to cheaper gas alternatives. Energy expert Robert Bryce accused the administration of delaying data release to avoid showing electricity's high expense. Historically, the DOE releases the data by August.

This electrification push is a typical example of climate extremism,” Bakst said. “There’s little to no consideration of how these policies will hurt Americans and the poor.”

Not everyone is in a position to help save the planet!

[mark blazejewski]

President Trump has been charged with "falsifying" business records, and many consider that charge to have been creatively constructed.

https://missouriindependent.com/.../trump-on-trial.../

On Monday, President Biden said this:

"Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”

Yesterday, the White House released a so-called transcript of Biden's otherwise unmistakable comments which reflected this:

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters’ — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

This is what Federal law says about tampering with government records:

"Any custodian of a public record who 'willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys (any record) shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.' "

https://www.justice.gov/.../criminal...ce-manual-1663...

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https://nypost.com/.../a-step-by-ste...at-how-the.../

[Lee Chowaniec]

Why voters that hate Trump will vote for him.

Not much to like about Trump but he doesn’t call voters deplorables, irredeemable, stupid, fascists, Nazi’s, racists, garbage, et al, and his message is clear. Unlike his opponent who was endorsed by Biden and her party and never having to primary. The flip floppers strategy:

• Was initially sold as Biden on steroids.
• When interviewed couldn’t think of anything she would have done differently than Biden.
• Raved about his mental acuity and accomplishments.
• Did a 180 on her policies but acknowledged her values remained the same.
• Promised a love & joy vibe at the Democratic convention.
• Then attempts to distance herself from Biden declaring she in no way was Joe Biden and that we must move forward.
• Has been vague in defining her policies, instead choosing to attack Trump in the vilest terms.
• Now backing off on the hateful and divisive rhetoric and promising unity.

The following USA Opinion piece well represents what not only this Republican thinks but voters in general.

I don't like Trump, but I'm voting for him. Here's why many Americans will, to

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...c938bc7b&ei=82

I'm a Republican, but I don't like Donald Trump. I also don't identify with MAGA Republicans, especially the cult-like following the former president has here in Texas.
The riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that Trump encouraged was the watershed moment that forced me to rescind my previous support for him. It was an egregious incident in American history.

For many reasons, I could make a compelling case that Trump is unfit for the presidency. I'll always be disappointed that Republican primary voters chose him again to represent millions of conservatives.

However, I will vote for Trump this election. About 75 million Americans, perhaps more, also will vote for him. Here's why.

Donald Trump's stronger on policy

When I was young and idealistic, I cared about a bevy of issues. As more of a purist then, I would have probably written in a candidate if Trump had been on the ballot when I was able to vote in my first or second election.

But I think that's shortsighted and silly now. There's so much at stake. Three things matter to me in this election: foreign policy, the economy and border security. Trump has shown he can handle all of these.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' economic plans are abysmal. They reflect purely socialist ideas, including handing out down payments for homes and a slew of "free" programs. America will go bankrupt trying to pay for Harris' planned bloated bureaucracy.

Under the Biden-Harris economy, inflation spiked to a 40-year high of 9.1% only two years ago. Grocery prices, rent, mortgage rates and auto prices remain high. Many Americans are struggling to pay for necessities as a result.

Foreign Policy

Foreign policy is another crucial matter. Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States has looked weak. From Israel's war against Hamas, enabled in part by the Biden administration's decision to lift sanctions on Iran, to the withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia's war against Ukraine, the world is dangerously unstable.

As billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said in a viral interview, "All of this has led to a world on fire."

US Southern Border

Another issue in Trump's favor: The U.S. southern border must be taken seriously again. It's a matter of national security.

Under the Biden-Harris administration, Trump-era policies were reversed, allowing 8 million migrants to enter the United States, according to Axios. More than 1.7 million people entered the country illegally by evading Border Patrol. And smugglers brought an estimated 50,000 pounds of deadly fentanyl across the border.

If he does nothing else, Trump will secure the border for the well-being of U.S. citizens.

Kamala Harris is too extreme

I can't vote for Harris. I don't know how even moderates can.

The Democratic Party spent the past four years scolding Trump for undermining democracy, but then replaced our duly elected, aging and incoherent president as its nominee with Harris after the primary season had ended and she didn't win a single Democratic vote. It's the Democratic Party that has fractured the democratic process.

It has been hard to pin Harris down on what she believes. Her evasions are strategic and egregious. But when her ideas are clear, they expose the Democratic Party's embrace of progressivism.

Harris, alongside Biden, had four years to implement policies that would improve the lives of Americans. They failed. Gallup released a poll this month showing that 52% of Americans say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago. Only 39% said they are better off; 9% said they are about the same.
In 2024, we are a nation suffering from the lingering pain of runaway inflation, with a growing and unsustainable debt, in a world where devastating wars threaten to break into global conflict. This isn't the time to stay the course for four more years.

Tens of millions of Americans will vote for Trump

Three kinds of people will vote for Trump in this election, and it's important liberals and the mainstream news media − but I repeat myself − understand this.

Voters like me are conservatives who don't like Trump because we think he doesn't represent true conservative ideas. I'm also repulsed by his character flaws and legal troubles.

The second category of Trump voters are right-center Americans who can't find their values or ideas represented in the far-left version of the Democratic Party that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, represent.

The last kind of person voting for Trump are those who like him − a lot. They think he defies norms, bucks trends and represents the marginalized middle American voter. They like that he schmoozes on golf courses he owns and yet will don a McDonald's apron to learn how to make french fries. They don't care that he isn't an articulate, consistent ideologue because they aren't.

[mark blazejewski]

Yesterday, the White House released a so-called transcript of Biden's otherwise unmistakable comments which reflected this:


This is what Federal law says about tampering with government records:

"Any custodian of a public record who 'willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys (any record) shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.' "

https://www.justice.gov/.../criminal...ce-manual-1663...


https://nypost.com/.../a-step-by-ste...at-how-the.../

This morning:

White House officials altered the official transcript of President Biden's "garbage" remark despite concerns by official White House stenographers — career federal employees who serve from administration to administration, AP reports.

Why it matters: An internal email from the White House Stenography Office called the press office's intervention "a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices."

References:

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/01/bid...script-changed

https://apnews.com/article/biden-gar...23011a946b6252

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house...remark-1978381

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...e/75978982007/

[Lee Chowaniec]

VOTE: Policies over personalities!

Trump must be demented, right? All the signs are there, right? He behaves wildly and irrationally on account of anger, distress, excitement; declared demented, dangerous, unhinged and a sadistic despot by the Democratic Party and their media cohorts.

Almost assassinated twice, the alleged Hitler-loving Nazi dictator is charged as the existential threat to America’s democracy, freedoms, and free speech. Egomaniacal and narcistic enough to believe America is broken in so many ways and that only he can fix what is broken, Democrats claim Trump is not a decent man, unfit fo be president.

American voters who dare thinking of voting for him are being called stupid, deplorables, fascists, racists, xenophobes, sexists, the vilest names.

Harris and her supporters say there is nothing to fix. There isn’t anything that comes to Harris’ mind that she would have done differently in the Biden-Harris administration. Much was accomplished. Yet she adamantly declares she is not Joe Biden, flip flopped on all her previous leftwing, socialist policies, and unlike Trump is fit to serve as Commander-in Chief.

Harris and Walz will keep the border open to unvetted millions of illegal aliens from around the world – some gangsters, some known terrorists – paving a path for amnesty and voting privileges resulting in a one-party state. More censorship in the guise of combating ‘misinformation,’ disinformation,’ and hate speech.

Nothing to fix or worry about, right? Tuesday the public will decide whether the border is secure, the country is safe, the economy is booming, despite inflation being back to near pre-pandemic level the cost-of-living is extraordinarily high, the world is on fire with global conflict and threat of nuclear war, violent crime is still high, illicit drug use and deaths on the rise and the Democrats would have us believe we are better off today than 4 years ago.

Three more days and all this political claptrap stops, right? Think again! The hate, divisiveness, misinformation, disinformation, gaslighting, will continue fueled by a mistrustful, biased media.

Vote like your life depended on it as this is truly the most consequential election America has faced. Which candidate(s), which party truly represents your values and mores? Which candidate(s), which party really represents the threat to our democracy, our freedoms, our free speech?

Policies, not personalities!

[mark blazejewski]

I am hearing that a New York Times poll to be released this morning is suggesting a tight race with late-deciding voters trending toward Harris, but this article seems to suggest that the race has already been decided.

" 'What you’re hearing out there is that the polls are close, and I think that’s wrong,' he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday, adding, 'I think the polls on average show a strong Trump win, and my polls taken independently show that as well.' ”

Reference: https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/...-realignment/?

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trump victory: Democratic Party & leftwing media hysteria

The media gaslighting continues, from Harris voters waking to a nightmare, America’s loss of democracy, living under fascism / isolationism / totalitarianism, etc.

From Kamala Harris supposedly running a perfect campaign to white women doing her in, as did anyone who did not vote for her because she was a woman and a minority.

It had nothing to do that her messaging was undefined, her political history belied her policy flipflopping, she is unfit for the position, and 70% of voters had declared all along that America was headed in the wrong direction under the Biden-Harris administration.

Three-fourths of voters surveyed by Edison Research said the country was going in a negative direction. Of those voters, 61% went for Trump. Of the voters who called themselves "angry," 71% backed the Republican. Voters who said the economy was their top concern broke 79% to 20% for Trump, according to the poll.

The Democratic Party had turned too radical left, mocking voters they should have been wooing to get their support and votes from in the process.

Even blaming Biden for not exiting the campaign soon enough when in fact his successful record against Trump far exceeded hers. Harris failed miserably in the 2020 presidential campaign and the party proceeded to endorse her and not conduct a primary.

The Democrats and media lackeys have but to look in the mirror to see who was responsible for Trump’s victory. Voters had enough of the social experiment, identity politics, wokeism, et al.

So much for the radical left of the Democratic Party declaring: “When they go low, we go high!”

The two-party system remains alive and well!

[Lee Chowaniec]

Blame for Trump's return rests at Dems' feet
NOLAN FINLEY
Detroit News

Democrats who are reliving their worst nightmare have only themselves to blame.

Donald Trump should have had no chance to win this election. He left the White House at the end of his first term having presided over the Jan. 6 insurrection. He had been impeached twice. He was disgraced, vilified, and hated. But not humbled.

As soon as he flew out of Washington, he began plotting his return. Trump devoted himself to reclaiming the office he believed had been stolen from him.

For four years, he was the target of a relentless campaign by Democrats to destroy him. A barrage of civil suits and criminal charges were lodged against him, timed to come to court at the height of the presidential campaign.

Still, Trump pulled off the most remarkable political comeback in American history. Going into Election Day, 52% of Americans had an unfavorable view of Trump. Yet he won both the electoral vote and likely the popular vote — the first Republican to do so in this century. He also carried with him a new GOP Senate majority.

And he owes the Democratic Party much of the credit. This election was not as much about Trump as it was Vice President Harris. Her name should never have been on the ballot.

The party power brokers, once they ousted President Biden from the race, so underestimated Trump they believed they could win simply by marketing Harris as a next-generation leader with the youth, energy, and vision the country craved. They also thought they could paper over the fact she was the No. 2 in an administration that had destroyed household budgets, destabilized the world and enabled a flood of illegal immigration.

Harris would not have prevailed as the nominee in a competitive primary process. During the early talk about replacing Biden, her name was well down the list.

Harris was an uninspiring leader who failed when given an opportunity to take charge of the crisis at the border.

The billion-dollar campaign crafted for Harris centered on shielding her from scrutiny. It was late in the game before she began doing interviews, and then largely with friendly outlets. She also steadfastly refused to define herself beyond saying, "I'm not Joe Biden and I'm not Donald Trump."

As for Trump, he kept his foot in his mouth much of the time. He rambled and ranted at his rallies. He made scores of unforced errors. But he asked the same question that carried Ronald Reagan to victory: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Harris couldn't come up with an answer. But voters did. They had already discounted Trump's negatives. He talked about things that troubled them — inflation, immigration, and crime. And even though the delivery was often crude, the message touched the nation's frustrations and fears.

The theoretical threat to democracy Trump presented didn't play as well as the tangible threat to their quality of life and hope for the future they experienced under
Biden and Harris. He summed up his pitch with a solid punch: She broke it, I'll fix it.

Democrats likely would have beaten Trump with a candidate vetted through a competitive primary process and able to claim distance from the failed Biden administration.

Instead, they nominated Kamala Harris. And elected Donald Trump.

Opinion

Even voters disgusted by the vile, crash Trump held their noses and were willing to vote for the party offering domestic and foreign policies that promise to fix a declining America – one unlike the far left’s socialist-progressive policies and programs that have adversely impacted their country’s economic fortunes, national / domestic security, adverse impacts from an open border crisis, an increasing and unsustainable debt, etc.

Despite 70% of American voters declaring the country was heading in the wrong direction, where 60% declared living paycheck-to-paycheck, many Americans fearful there streets were no longer safe from unfettered illegal immigration, tired of identity politics / wokeism / cancel culture, the elitist far left in the Democratic Party were out of touch with the American public and refuse to see this not as a wakeup call and an opportunity for change, but as a time to blame everyone but themselves for their failure to win the presidency.

Only about 4 in 10 voters in the 2024 presidential election approved of how Biden managed his job as president, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.

Democrats are still trying to figure out where it all went wrong and where the party goes from here, leading to infighting, finger-pointing, and Monday morning quarterbacking. Team Biden advisers are pointing the finger at Team Harris advisers and vice-versa, going from blaming President Biden for running at all, to Vice President Harris for how the campaign was run.

This is an elitist group that even dares to call the electorate ‘stupid’ for failing to accept the gaslighting and disinformation it was delivering. A group so bent on pontificating on inclusiveness, playing the race card at every opportunity, even declaring ‘uneducated, uniformed, white women’ contributed to Harris’ downfall..

This is a moment that requires the reinvention of a political vision that reconnects with the forgotten middle class, disillusioned youth, marginalized communities and working poor.

When you’re in a hole you are supposed to stop digging. Apparently, the Democratic Party elitists and its far-left surrogates never heard the expression and continue to dig deeper.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Democrats: Hate for Trump was not enough

Was the Democratic Party’s intelligentsia and surrogate leftwing media so foolish / irresponsible that they were willing to cover for an equally irresponsible, reckless, and inept candidate / campaign when 75% of the electorate were openly declaring the country was heading in the wrong direction, they were not better off than four years ago, and they wanted change. And Harris openly tells the voter that she could not think of changing anything from the Biden-Harris administration.

43% of Americans no longer consider themselves Democrat or Republican, are sick and tired of the divisiveness and polarization resulting from extremists from both political parties, tired of identity politics, wokeism, cancel culture / DEI, believe this is an obvious time for centrist policies, even a centrist third party. Moderates have also been largely squeezed out of political relevance by acrimonious polarization, plus the extreme gerrymandering of congressional and legislative districts in many states.

A Centrist Party in America would contest general rather than primary elections, adding a fresh alternative. Such a middle party could bring pragmatic solutions to critical problems the major parties avoid like the plague, such as future funding of Medicare and Social Security, and out-of-control public spending and debt.

The Democrats lost touch with the middleclass and less fortunate and less educated except when it was time to buy a vote. They referred to them as deplorables, stupid, easily misinformed / misled, garbage, etc. People who climbed the academic ladder were feted with accolades, while those who didn’t were rendered invisible.

Society has worked as a vast segregation system, elevating the academically gifted above everybody else. The diploma divide became the most important chasm in American life. High school graduates die nine years sooner than college-educated people. They die of opioid overdoses at six times the rate. They marry less and divorce more and are more likely to have a child out of wedlock. They are more likely to be obese.

A recent American Enterprise Institute study found that 24% of people who graduated from high school at most have no close friends. They are less likely than college graduates to visit public spaces or join community groups and sports leagues. They don’t speak in the right social justice jargon or hold the sort of luxury beliefs that are markers of public virtue. The chasms led to a loss of faith, a loss of trust, a sense of betrayal. People perceive themselves to be living under constant threat and in a culture of extreme distrust.

An elitist educated class that professes diversity, equity, and inclusiveness looks in the mirror of society and sees only itself, not the 75% of Americans that wanted change.

Some on the left say Trump won because of the inherent racism, sexism, and authoritarianism of the American people. Apparently, those people love losing and want to do it repeatedly. They set out to destroy Trump and the Republican Party as well using any means to accomplish that goal. In doing so, they are being seen as the real threat to America’s democracy, freedoms, and free speech.

[Lee Chowaniec]

In whose best interest?

As of September 2024, 186.5 voters have party affiliation.

36 million registered REPUBLICANS (19.3%)
45.1 million registered DEMOCRATS (24.2%)
32.1 million registered INDEPENDENTS (17.2%)
5.1 million registered under minor parties (2.9%)

118.3 million affiliated registered voters (63.4%

68.5 million voters are unaffiliated – 36.6%.

75.1 million votes were cast for TRUMP (50.3%) in the recent election.
71.8 million were cast for HARRIS (48.1%) in the recent election.

Amidst their blame game, Democrats are asking themselves, “How did our country elect Donald Trump?” But the question they should be asking is, “Why did so many people reject the Democratic Party?”

There appears to be zero self-reflection by the Democratic Party that could otherwise educate them on why their message — or their messenger — did not resonate with voters. The party of hope & joy, inclusiveness, cannot make a course correction unless it begins listening to voters and changing the way they talk to them – to have listened to the 75% of polled voters declaring the country was headed in the wrong direction and change was imperative.

If anything, Democrats are pledging to resist working with the Trump administration, Governors even pledging to obstruct Trump’s policies openly.

I have been a lifelong unaffiliated registered voter and can well understand why there is an ever-increasing percentage of voters who are reticent to identify as Republican or Democrat. Both parties have lost their way to the extremists in their parties and ultimately act in their best interests over that of the electorate.

We are so screwed!

Other

Well worth the read!

To correct course, Democrats need to listen and change the way they talk to voters
Opinion by Joe Cunningham

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...dc3d17a4&ei=58

[mark blazejewski]

President Trump appears to have won the popular vote, 74, 994,000 to 71,800,000 for Vice President Harris; the first time a Republican candidate for President has won the majority of the popular vote since 2004.

In 2020, President Biden received 81, 283, 501 to President Trump's 74,223, 975. This year, President Trump will probably receive almost what he received in 2020, and Harris will receive 10,000,000 votes LESS that did President Biden.

For some reason, that 81,283, 501 vote total for Biden in 2020 still does not sound right to me.

This year, where did the 9,000,000 Biden votes go, or were those votes not really there in 2020?

This graph shows the full national popular vote since 2012:

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Far more perplexing, this graph shows the 2020 election returns in Michigan with a rather curious anomaly at 11:04:06 p.m. and 11:06:09 p.m. on November 3, 2020:

image - 2024-11-12T080716.524.jpg

What's explains that???

[Lee Chowaniec]

Democrats: Everything they claimed Trump is and more

The Democrats and their leftwing media lackeys painted Trump as the existential threat to our democracy / freedoms / free speech; a racist, a xenophobe, fascist, sexist, mentally deficient, wacko. Trump’s rightwing media as outlets for lies / propaganda / misinformation / disinformation, peddling hate and conspiracy theories. The public as deplorables, garbage racist and everything else Trump represented (guilt by association) for voting for him, or even for considering voting for him.

Despite losing to Trump and losing the House, told openly by the electorate (75%) they wanted a change in direction, the Democrats and their surrogates just can’t let go and admit they f’ed up and need to shut up and regroup. The party of inclusion, tolerance, preachers of free speech & diversity, are wallowing in their own self-pity, hate and vindictiveness.

The Democratic Party had a weak candidate in Harris. The Biden Harris plan all along has been to politically persecute their opponent President Trump because they can’t beat him fair and square. Biden, in a rare campaign appearance for, but not with Harris, told Democratic campaign workers that with respect to former President Donald Trump , “We’ve gotta lock him up.”

“The Harris-Biden Administration is the real threat to democracy,” declared a Republican campaign representative. “We call on Kamala Harris to condemn Joe Biden’s disgraceful remark.”

The absurd rhetoric spewed by this crowd is churlish, parochial, hateful, and contradictory to their established, pontificating ‘values.’ Advocating:

• Obstructing Trump agendas and policies at every opportunity

• Mass immigration before Trump takes office

• 30-40% of disheartened liberals thinking of moving to a Blue state or out of the country

• The left’s hysteria and delusion was brought on by the mainstream media’s dishonest reporting

• Not celebrating Thanksgiving or Christmas with family who voted for Trump

• The Democratic campaign spent the billion it received from donors, is still $20 million in debt, and now criticized for its irresponsible spending on a weak
candidate and disastrous game plan.

• Where Democrats have only 25% of the registered voters, to call or infer the remainder may be deplorables, stupid, uninformed, garbage, racist, fascist, or xenophobic because they not only voted for Trump but even considered voting for Trump is what was stupid on the part of the elitist Democratic hierarchy. The Democratic Party is now out-of-touch with the America’s middleclass.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Newspaper vows to become 'fair and balanced.'

In the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump's landslide win, legacy media outlet the Los Angeles Times appears to be making a frantic effort to realign with voters.

On Wednesday, the Times' owner, Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong, announced that the newspaper would replace its editorial board.

'Putting lipstick on a pig.'

In a statement on X, Soon-Shiong wrote, "When the President has won the vote of the majority of Americans then ALL voices must be heard. Opinions are just that."

“I will work towards making our paper and media fair and balanced so that all voices are heard, and we can respectfully exchange every American's view," he added, emphasizing that diverse perspectives would include opinions "from left to right to the center."

"Coming soon," Soon-Shiong wrote. "A new Editorial Board. Trust in media is critical for a strong democracy."
Over recent years, the editorial section of the L.A. Times has frequently published articles that clearly demonstrate its left-leaning bias.

The Times issued an opinion piece in 2021 written by columnist Erika D. Smith, titled, "Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You've been warned." The following year, the newspaper released an op-ed by business columnist Michael Hiltzik titled, "Mocking anti-vaxxers' COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary."

Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin noted that the L.A. Times published article after article "endorsing soft on crime [Los Angeles District Attorney] DA George Gascon, who just got blown out by over 20 points in his re-election bid."

Police analyst and Townhall columnist Phil Holloway responded on X to the news that the L.A. Times plans to replace its editorial board.

Holloway wrote, "Here in the south we call this 'putting lipstick on a pig.'"
"They can change the editorial board all they want, but until they abandon 'advocacy journalism' — which is a euphemism for propaganda — they will remain a newspaper worthy only of lining birdcages," Holloway added.

Leading into the election, Soon-Shiong faced significant pushback after he refused to allow the newspaper to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Since 2008, the Times has backed every Democratic presidential candidate.

Following the non-endorsement decision, the newspaper faced a wave of resignations, including three editorial board members.
Then-editorials editor Mariel Garza stated at the time, "I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent."

"In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I'm standing up," Garza added.

Soon-Shiong explained, "The Editorial Board was provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation."

"Instead of adopting this path as suggested, the Editorial Board chose to remain silent and I accepted their decision," he said.

The Los Angeles Times Guild Unit Council and Bargaining Committee accused Soon-Shiong of "unfairly assigning blame to Editorial Board members for his decision not to endorse."

[Lee Chowaniec]

Trump’s Cabinet nominations – unfit for office?

Inclusion, tolerance, compassion, love, truth, unity, peaceful transition, all seem to have been replaced by the Democrats with hate, vengeance, and coalitions formed to conspire against the Trump agenda, thus subverting the voice and will of the people.

The rage is so childish it extends to excoriating every Cabinet member Trump nominates. This coming from a party spending over $1 billion in campaign money and $20 million in debt, smug and out-of- touch with the people, and a candidate who was really unfit for the office.

Kamala's bio - astonishing

1981: Graduated High School in CANADA, where she grew up since the age of 12.

1981: Attended Vanier College in Montreal, for 1yr.

1982: Transferred to Howard University, is held back.

1986: Graduated Howard University

No US Diploma & took 5yrs to complete a 4yr undergraduate degree.

Kamala got into law school through an affirmative action program called the Legal Education Opportunity Program. As the underachieving daughter of Professors, Kamala is a prime example of how AA was abused, and why it is illegal, today.

1987: #82 Law School in US

1989: Graduated from it: Hasting College of Law

1990: Staff Lawyer DAs office in Bay Area (all newbies are called e.g., “Assistant DAs” or “Deputy DAs”, etc.)

FAILED Bar Exam and, after needing a do-over, eventually passed. NOTE: Kamala Harris was a below average law student & only 18% of her UC Hastings law classmates failed the bar that year.

1991: Staff Lawyer

1992: Staff Lawyer, then Employment is terminated.

1993: Began affair w/Willie Brown, twice her age.

(Finally registered to vote at Age 29, despite telling everyone she was an avid “feedumb” advocate since childhood.)

1994: Willie appointed her to a high-paying job on the Unemployment Insurance Board.

Kamala had no Insurance Experience though, so the Press took notice of inappropriately appointing his mistress to public political positions & wrote about it, even in, eg, The Los Angeles Times, etc.

1995: Kamala quit that Board as Willie appointed her to a different high-paying 1 that required fewer hours & just once a month meeting - CA Medical Asst. Commission.

Yet again, Kamala had no Medical or relevant Legal experience, though. More bad Press shared this truth.

1998: Willie sent her back to a Staff Attorney job, managing fine & fee processing, filing at CCU in SF for that DAs Office.

1999: Caught neglecting to properly file exculpatory evidence in George Gage case—led to 70-year prison sentence. The press was all over it.

2000: Had to leave there, so Willie sent her to work as a Staff Attorney at SF City Hall, working for city attorney Louise Renne, doing filing for child abuse & neglect cases.

2002: Lied about Prosecutorial Record. The press was all over it.

Google Search shows no video, pics or any evidence of Kamala Harris actually prosecuting a case, talking to press after she did, etc., like normal DAs Office Attorneys do, etc., bc she never actually did.

2003: NONETHELESS, powerful local politician & Mayor now, Willie Brown, admitted he miraculously helped get Staff Attorney Kamala elected as San Francisco DA!!

2004: Refused to seek death penalty for police murderer.

2005: Refused to release records of sexually abusive Priests.

2010: Elected as CA AG by 0.5% margin.

2011: Withheld information leading to 600+ drug-related cases being tossed.

2012-15: Threw 1,500+ people behind bars over marijuana offenses and refused early release of prisoners.

2016: Elected to the CA U.S. Senate seat.

2018: Chanted “down, down with deportation” at parade w/hoaxter Jussie Smollett.

2019: Entered 2020 presidential race—dropped out over no support from her own State, due to her publicized abysmal history & lack of bona fide experience.

2024: Endorsed without a primary taking place – failed to put her change message across.

And yet, this same woman eventually became the 2d most powerful person in the world. Let that sink in…

An unabashed DEI hire by Joe Biden, with no discernable qualifications or experience, sat within a heartbeat of the Presidency of the United States.

Even more astounding, she had the support of almost half of our population to be duly elected to the office.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Something good did come out of the election.

The thing this Independent feared most in the recent election didn’t happen. As hard as the Democrats tried to blow the Republicans away to the point of weakening / destroying the party forever, just the opposite happened. Despite using every conceivable tactic, often lying and gaslighting the public, the American voter was not as uniformed or stupid as the far-left elitists believed.

In fact, it was they who lived in their ivory towers who were indeed out of touch with 75% of a working-class voters that called for a change in direction and in turn received a message that told them they were too stupid to understand how good they had it, that there was no need for change, and that the evil Trump was the threat to their democracy, freedoms, free speech, and prosperity. Getting the voter to hate Trump, blaming his for all their failures, and fearmongering should he be elected was enough to win the election.

The voters saw through the lies of the Biden-Harris administration and surrogate media, had enough of progressive-socialist policies, identity politics, senseless wokeism, and got the change they wanted. Now it’s the Democrat’s chance to hold the Republican’s accountable – certainly not by coalescing and purposedly obstructing any policies that favor the best interest of the country.

Fortunately, the two major party system is still intact. The American public was fortunate in that respect. Trump pledges to ‘fix’ what the Democrats have broken. He promises unity. The Democrats should work to that end as well. We are a country in decline – an open border with 12 million unvetted illegals roaming our streets, a cooling inflation but stuck with a high cost-of-living status, high crime, proxy wars, and a staggering unsustainable debt.

If after four years no improvement takes place, a third party is a must!

To the Democrats: “Get over it already. Your blame game is whinny and ridiculous!”